Example sentences of "they [vb past] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madeleine was still very young , Harry told himself as they drove the next ten miles in silence . |
| 2 | They returned the next day with the coffin and four men from the workhouse who were to carry it . |
| 3 | Amid chants of ‘ Get the beasts ’ and ‘ You 're going to die ’ , they spent the next several hours dragging their victims from their barricaded cells , humiliating them and beating them up . |
| 4 | Three days later Mrs Holt arrived in town , and they spent the next three days together before she left . |
| 5 | ‘ He would , ’ Miss Hatherby chuckled , and they spent the next half hour discussing him . |
| 6 | They spent the next few minutes getting themselves and the canoe off the water . |
| 7 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 8 | When they had described all that they could the film was started again and they watched the next five second section , and so on until an entire film had been described . |
| 9 | I separated them but they died the next day . |
| 10 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 11 | They went the next morning . |
| 12 | Well yeah the wind fell but I 'm not really sure whether they went the next day or the day after that I ca n't remember . |
| 13 | They reached the next landing and swung themselves around it , clambering up the next set of stairs . |
| 14 | When they reached the next chamber he extinguished it and exchanged it for the torch . |
| 15 | They appeared the next Friday night at the Smiths ' poolside looking fashionably anonymous and sinister like Seb 's crowd , and jumped in eagerly , Hoomey obviously expecting his new look to do wonders for his crawl . |
| 16 | India 's fortunes changed dramatically as they won the next two Tests by large margins ; the third by 222 runs ( Chandrasekhar distinguishing himself with 6 for 52 in each innings with the ball and 0 in each innings with the bat ) , and the fourth by an innings and two runs . |
| 17 | The opposition Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) had restated that if they won the next election they would seek a complete ban on low-level flying . |
| 18 | Sweden 's Maria Gretzer , on Marcopille , was one but they had the next fence down and were among 10 sharing third place with four faults . |
| 19 | They married the next year and in the summer of 1991 bought their home in Upton . |